IMPACTS: LOSS OF THE ABM TREATY REDUCES USA NATIONAL SECURITY

MISSILE DEFENSE AT THE COST OF THE ABM TREATY REDUCES USA SECURITY

James O. Goldsborough, The San Diego Union-Tribune December 20, 1999, SECTION: OPINION Pg. B-7 HEADLINE: Spending billions for less national security //acs-ln-12-22-99

To build a NMD system against rogues and terrorists at the cost of killing the ABM Treaty, alienating allies and setting off a new arms race with Russia and China would be self-defeating. At the cost of another $100 billion or so, we would have purchased less security, not more.

ABM TREATY IS NOT OUTDATED AND IDEALISTIC -- IT IS FAR BETTER THAN UNILATERAL MOVES LIKE MISSILE DEFENSE DEPLOYMENT

James Carroll, The Boston Globe, October 19, 1999, SECTION: OP-ED; Pg. A19, HEADLINE: America has become a danger to the world// ln-10-29-99-acs

Now the rejection of defensive measures - whether by outlawing ABMs or forbidding nuclear tests - is seen as naively unrealistic in a dangerous world. But the men and women who beat back Hitler and outlasted Stalin were hardly naive idealists. They learned the hard way what their glib progeny are prepared to ignore - that the unilateral pursuit of national security through new rounds of weapons development leads to less security, not more.

LOSING THE ABM TREATY TO GAIN A MISSILE DEFENSE SYSTEM IS A NET INCREASE IN NUCLEAR THREAT TO THE USA

The New York Times, October 21, 1999, SECTION: Section A; Page 24; HEADLINE: Selling Russia on Missile Defense // ln-10-29-99-acs

Under most circumstances, fiddling with the ABM treaty would not be a good idea. The biggest potential threat to America comes from established nuclear powers like Russia and China, not smaller ones like North Korea. Existing arms control agreements, like the 1972 treaty, have a good record of managing these threats. But the administration makes a plausible case, and its proposal ought to be the basis for further discussions.

THE ABM TREATY IS A COLD WAR TREATY THAT IS SAVING OUR FUTURE -- WE NEED TO KEEP IT

James Carroll, The Boston Globe, October 19, 1999, SECTION: OP-ED; Pg. A19, HEADLINE: America has become a danger to the world// ln-10-29-99-acs

We hear a lot of talk about the heroic achievements of America's World War II generation. It takes nothing from the courage of those who threw themselves against the iron wall of Omaha Beach to praise that generation's equally courageous assault against the age-old logic of war nearly 30 years later. By then the youthful heroes of World War II were at the peak of power during the Cold War. Building on the Test Ban Treaty of 1963, they negotiated with the Soviet Union the myth-shattering Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty of 1972 and saved the future.